World of Warcraft: Forever Restoration Shaman - Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities

Restoration has a very simple spell kit that is easy to understand. You will use Healing Wave for single-target healing, Chain Heal for area healing, and Riptide for spot-healing. Riptide is also used on your main Chain Heal target for the +25% healing buff.

The following rotations will be in priority order, which means that when deciding what to cast at any given moment, you should work through the list top to bottom.

These lists assume you are using the recommended builds in the Talents page, and are at maximum level. If you are still leveling, refer to the Talents page for leveling rotations.

Use this rotation to heal a single target or a small amount of allies taking focused damage.

1. Pre-place all of your Totems with Call of the Elements, with Searing Totem being placed last just before pulling due to its lower duration.
2. Cast Riptide on the most injured targets on cooldown.
3. Cast Healing Wave to heal injured targets, downranked if damage is not enough to warrant using your maximum rank.
4. Use Lightning Bolt for damage if there are no urgent healing requirements and Mana allows.

Use this rotation when healing multiple allies simultaneously against group damage, or when trying to deal damage to 3+ enemies at once.

1. Pre-place all of your Totems with Call of the Elements, with Magma Totem being placed last just before pulling due to its lower duration.
2. Cast Riptide on the most injured targets on cooldown.
3. Cast Chain Heal on an injured target with Riptide, downranked if damage is not enough to warrant using your maximum rank.
4. Use Fire Nova and Chain Lightning for damage against multiple enemies if there are no urgent healing requirements and Mana allows.

As a Restoration Shaman, you have various long cooldowns that can be critical for supporting your allies.

Mana Tide Totem restores a significant amount of Mana to yourself and nearby allies. Try to use it at 80% Mana in order to not waste any of its restoring effects.

Nature's Swiftness allows you to cast one of your heals (typically Healing Wave) instantly once every 3 minutes. Keep it for an emergency, i.e. to save your tank from dying when they drop incredibly low all of a sudden.

Shamans also come with a ton of utility spells and Totems, which can be used to help your group deal with specific challenges.

Earthbind Totem slows down all enemies around it, which makes it great for controlling melee enemies who run away when at low health, or allow yourself and allies to run from adverse situations.

Poison Cleansing Totem and Disease Cleansing Totem remove all poison and disease effects from nearby allies periodically, which is invaluable against enemies who apply dangerous poison and disease debuffs.

Tremor Totem allows you to remove sleep, fear, and charm effects from party members, which is of particular use against common mass-fear effects from end game bosses and in PvP.

Earth Shock is the only healer interrupt in WoW Forever. Using this correctly will allow you to prevent a lot of damage that would otherwise need to be healed, and it can help bring caster enemies to melee range where they can be more easily killed and controlled.

A Restoration Shaman's primary resource is Mana. Its maximum is based on your Intellect, and the regeneration rate is based on your Spirit and MP5. For a detailed breakdown on the various Mana-affecting stats, check out our Stats page.

Most of the time the best consumable you can use will be a Mana-restoring one such as a Major Mana Potion, but in shorter fights with high healing requirements you can also use Major Mender's Potion to make your healing more potent for a short period.

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